Welcome back to our series by renowned local photographer Avi of Avivi Photo.  The first entry covered the angle of view.  Today we are talking about composition.  As a reminder, you don't need an expensive camera to take great pictures.  All our shots in this series are taken with an iPhone.

Taking better pet pictures – Filling the frame and basic composition and cropping your picture.

This entry deals with a common mistake people make when taking pictures of their pets. Specifically not filling the picture frame.  As mentioned in the first entry – this applies to pretty much any type of photography.

If you look at dog photos you'll often see too much space around the picture of the dog.  Many of you probably have pictures where there’s a person or a group, and they have a lot of dead space around them.  Consider the picture of Prim on the left:

On it’s own, not too bad of a picture.  The ‘problem’ is that Prim just blends into the background.  Also – the cars in the background tend to be distracting.  Getting closer by Zooming (or physically getting closer to the subject), or simply cropping the image (cropping is available on most smart phones today) – will yield a much better image.  Consider the following when we simply crop Prim’s image on the right. 

Now we have this mastered, in our next post we'll talk about where to place your dog in your picture and something called "The Rule of Thirds".  You can see more of my work here.

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